Questions and Meditations

6 Pralaya

Our animal life, from the instant of our expulsion from the womb, is furrowed with violence, beginning with the violence of our needs, appetites and cravings which dominates our physical consciousness till its instruments develop – and propel us in fields of forces where compete and clash all sorts of wills seeking to impose themselves.

But every imposition is a violence, be it institutional, clannish, moral, emotional, intellectual or physical.

And it is in terms of violence that we learn to make use of our personal will, violence is the measure of its effectiveness = even when we are convinced of acting for the good.

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It is only when one unites with one’s psychic consciousness that one may withdraw from all violence and let the Force of Harmony act.

And the only imposition free of violence is that of the true Consciousness, for it bears its own evidence, unalterable, indivisible, whole and contraryless.

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Violence may as well be passive: one is its blinded instrument, one commits a violation unwittingly. So does the entrepreneur who lets the toxic effluents pour out from his factory into the river, who is himself under the violent pressures being exerted on his own resources and his limited capacity of discernment and choice.

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It would seem at present – is it a terrestrial battle, a general conflict, a frenetic race, or is it rather the transition to another equilibrium? – that our

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